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17th May 2007
1. Music Festival at the Royal
Castle Hotel
2.
Dolcoath and a Lifeboat
3.
Browns Music Festival
4. The
Dart Marina Music Festival
5. Dartmouth
in Bloom coffee morning
6.
French Twinning
7.
Parish Church updates its website
8.
Small News
1. Music
Festival at The Royal Castle Hotel
It's almost non-stop music
at the Castle, here are just a few of the many events.
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Friday Night in the
Harbour Bar, James & Max Cann, folky/rock from 8:00-10:30pm
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Saturday Lunch time,
Steve Payne roots, country and blues guitarist from 12:00-2:00pm
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Saturday evening Gala
Buffet, you get 'Three Blondes and A Brunette' and ownership
of your table all night, vibrant, close harmony a capella
quartet 7:30-10:00pm, just £39.95 all in
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Sunday afternoon, river
cruise, live music from Spoonful, unique five piece blues/rock
band 12:45pm return 2:30pm, £7:50 person
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Sunday evening, Kate
Walsh, 7:30-10.00pm in the Restaurant
2. Dolcoath and a Lifeboat
Last night
Kevin Pine read some of his poems in aid of the RNLI Lifeboat
for Dartmouth at The Flavel. His comment was quite simple,
we want a Dartmouth Lifeboat, and we are being offered a
Dartmouth Lifeboat. There is an Open Meeting at the
Dartmouth Guildhall on Monday 21st May at 6pm. The RNLI Inspectors
from Saltash and the local team will explain what has been
achieved so far in Dartmouth and what the plans for the future
are.
Kevin and his daughter Robyn combined poems about Devon and Cornwall, referring to Cornishmen and Dolcoath Tin. Dave Cawley comments: I
simply could not believe it, I did my apprenticeship at Dolcoath
Road, Camborne in the 60's. We were often taken on trips
to see local engineering companies, many still using overhead
pulleys and belts to drive their lathes, milling and drilling
machines, a very dangerous practice! It must be 30 years
since I heard anyone say the word 'Dolcoath'.
Dolcoath, Cornish for 'The Old Pit' was owned by the Bassett
family. The story goes that Lady Basset bathed naked in
the big cave in Portreath only accessible when the tide is out.
'Lady Basset's Bath' is a perfectly formed bath set into the
rock. As someone said 'tis a funny old world!'
3.
Browns Music Festival
James Brown reports:
We are delighted to welcome back Kate Walsh (Friday) and Mark
Ely (Saturday) both of whom have recorded new albums this year.
Kate was recently the number one downloaded album on iTunes UK
and featured in a whole page article in The Times. Catch her at
Browns! We will be serving
early food in the bar between 6 and 7pm, and as normal in the
restaurant on both nights. To make a booking please call 832572
4. The
Dart Marina Music Festival
At The
Floating Bridge: Each night of the festival
from 8.30pm until 11.00pm, a band with a repertoire stretching
from The Shadows to Snow Patrol!
At Wildfire: Friday 18th May
- Listen to the Jazzy Duo from 8.30pm-11.00pm
Saturday 19th May - Enjoy an afternoon of soft rock covers with
Gasoline Alley from 4.00pm-5.30pm then from 8.30pm-11.00pm the
mood changes to Jazz with the Maggie Reeday Trio
Sunday 20th May - Unwind to the mellow guitar sounds of Clive
John from 7.30pm- 10.00pm
In the Square: The
Music Festival comes to The Square at Dart Marina - an open
space with room for families to join in!
Saturday 19th May from 11.00am-12 noon come and meet Shining
Bear at our family workshop and learn how to play the
Didgeridoo!
Sunday 20th May from 11.30am-12.30pm the Community College Choir
will fill the Square with songs taken from a wide repertoire
followed by the Exeter Pipes and Drums. From 2.30pm-4.00pm, sit
back and listen to mellow Blues from Maggie Thomas and Steve
Payne.
5. Dartmouth
in Bloom coffee morning
Over £800 pounds was
raised at a Coffee Morning held at The Naval College on
Saturday. There were plants and flowers to buy and
friends to meet, a great time! But guys, would you let
us know before the event next year please?
  
6. French
Twinning
Wendy Rendle reports : About
80 English and French friends sat down to a Grand Buffet Supper
by Philip Watts Services in the Guildhall on Saturday 14th May
to celebrate the 30th Anniversary of twinning between the towns
of Dartmouth, Devon and Courseulles-sur-Mer on the
Normandy coast. The Deputy Mayor of Courseulles-sur-Mer,
Jean-Pierre Fritz, presented books on the history of the towns
of the Calvados region to Dartmouth Mayor, Councillor Iris
Pritchard. Our Mayor led the signing of a 30th Anniversary
Charter, which was followed by all those present. The
commemorative books and the Charter, produced by Melvyn Stone,
will be held in the Guildhall. Despite the bad weather it
was an enjoyable weekend with some of the original members from
30 years ago being present. A reciprocal Anniversary Visit
will be made to Courseulles-sur-Mer on 21st to 25th September.
New members are most welcome and anyone interested in joining
the Dartmouth Anglo French Association should contact Wendy
Rendle 832435 or Dave Prettyjohns 770676."
 
7.
Parish Church updates its website & Music
Festival!!
The Parish Church has launched its new web site at
www.parish-of-dartmouth.org.uk
The original web developer had 'gone to ground'
leaving the Church in the lurch. The Dartmouth dot TV
Team stepped in and regained ownership of the name and it is
now independently hosted.
Simon Wright the vicar asked for the existing site to be
'captured' and the new one carried over with the same theme,
but modernised and rationalised. All three Dartmouth Churches
are
remarkably beautiful, and religious or not, if you haven't
seen them, drop by: St Saviour's (just behind Boots in the
town centre) and St Petrox (near Dartmouth Castle) are open
most days.
If you are having website problems, or just want a
completely fresh new one from scratch for as little as £150 call 833366, or simply reply to this e-mail.
Music Festival: There are numerous events in the
churches (all listed in the programme) including Kyra Gospel Choir and others at St
Petrox 2:30-5:00pm Saturday, not to be missed! Kyra will
also be at the Sung Eucharist at 11.00am on Sunday morning
in St Saviour's. Also in St Saviour's is the
Britannia Choral Society's 60th anniversary concert, tickets
£5 from the TIC or on the door. Friday 8:45pm.
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